These cards are really, really funny, and you need to go look at them. He’s got Randi, and Penn & Teller, and PZ, and My Close Personal Friend Adam Savage™, and many more. These are the definition of Made of Win.

Of course, there are some problems with them… I’m a skeptic after all. He included bad words on the card, forcing me to do some COPS-style blurring, and my weapon of choice is the whole Universe, baby. I wield a +∞ ultimate doom there, baby.

But it does really look like me. Though I figured I’d look more like Philip J. Fry. Oh well.

Does it mean something that Velma Dinkley is included in the cards? If one skeptic is fictional, maybe some of the others are too. I’ve always suspected that either Phil or Richard Wiseman doesn’t really exist and we’re just dealing with a case of multiple personality disorder.

I am similarly puritanical in my use of words. I want parents to feel comfortable having children read my blog. I am not one to use Carlin’s 7 words, other than in telling a joke, or quoting someone. Not because I am a prude. Far from it. I think that the language is rich enough that I can make my point with the rest of the words available.

What is obscene is in the eye of the beholder. I’m pretty sure that Creationists would be much more happy with us using all of the words that ordinarily cause them discomfort, as long as we do not utter that most evil of words – Evolution.

It would be nice to have cards that we could give to little kids to encourage an appreciation of what skeptics do, without the amusing comments that might discourage parents from sharing these with kids.

Our concerns about censorship should be focused on the ideas contained in the message.